Differences Between Education And IQ
Education.
On one hand, education is a skill set which has to be gained or adquired, while IQ is believed to be an innate quality. IQ scores have been associated with such factors as parental social status and parental IQ (Rowe, Jacobson, Van den Oord, 1999). Education is a factor that does value addition to each person’s quality, the way he behaves especially with other people and his temperament. By the other side, IQ assesses how is the one’s ability to adapt to everchanging conditions, understanding everyday problems or enigmas, offering solutions or how to act in an urgency. However, this factors are not correlated, since an person that has been denied of education may have a high IQ, while a person that has been educated in the best …show more content…
Another explanation for this is the cultural context, which might has a strong impact on what political ideologies better fit for intelligent people. As well, constantly changing social norms can can influence this. Woodley's cultural mediation hypothesis states that hihgly intelligent people are better detecting/espousing the more normative values at a particular time.
Concluding with this controversial topic, right-wing views can be adopted as well by highly intelligent people, so intelectual sophistication can exist in the reasons for supporting any of the orientations. As well, categorising people just as liberal or conservative can leave outside different views on social vs economic issues. We can state that there is a relationship between intelligence and political attitudes, but it's not fixed in a simple way, it changes across context and …show more content…
The book received a lot of critics because of their methodology and their conclusions, since there are more factors that determine the economical wealth of a nation, but anyway it is a good reference to take into account, since it appears to do much in the matter.
Charles Murray and Richard J. Herrnstein described in a book called “The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life” that nowadays the intellectually blessed people become more rich and powerful, whereas intellectually deficient people become find it harder to cope, trying to isolate the socioeconomic background from the comparison.
Society benefits intelligence through the educational system, reserving the best job positions for the better given in intelligence, and IQ is one of the best predictors of job productivity, and because of this, the economic value of IQ in the market place has increased during the last decades, and this seems to be a trend for the next
On one hand, education is a skill set which has to be gained or adquired, while IQ is believed to be an innate quality. IQ scores have been associated with such factors as parental social status and parental IQ (Rowe, Jacobson, Van den Oord, 1999). Education is a factor that does value addition to each person’s quality, the way he behaves especially with other people and his temperament. By the other side, IQ assesses how is the one’s ability to adapt to everchanging conditions, understanding everyday problems or enigmas, offering solutions or how to act in an urgency. However, this factors are not correlated, since an person that has been denied of education may have a high IQ, while a person that has been educated in the best …show more content…
Another explanation for this is the cultural context, which might has a strong impact on what political ideologies better fit for intelligent people. As well, constantly changing social norms can can influence this. Woodley's cultural mediation hypothesis states that hihgly intelligent people are better detecting/espousing the more normative values at a particular time.
Concluding with this controversial topic, right-wing views can be adopted as well by highly intelligent people, so intelectual sophistication can exist in the reasons for supporting any of the orientations. As well, categorising people just as liberal or conservative can leave outside different views on social vs economic issues. We can state that there is a relationship between intelligence and political attitudes, but it's not fixed in a simple way, it changes across context and …show more content…
The book received a lot of critics because of their methodology and their conclusions, since there are more factors that determine the economical wealth of a nation, but anyway it is a good reference to take into account, since it appears to do much in the matter.
Charles Murray and Richard J. Herrnstein described in a book called “The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life” that nowadays the intellectually blessed people become more rich and powerful, whereas intellectually deficient people become find it harder to cope, trying to isolate the socioeconomic background from the comparison.
Society benefits intelligence through the educational system, reserving the best job positions for the better given in intelligence, and IQ is one of the best predictors of job productivity, and because of this, the economic value of IQ in the market place has increased during the last decades, and this seems to be a trend for the next